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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jung say about Christian theology?

2. What distinguishes alchemy from standard science?

3. How many additions did Jung make to his house?

4. What is the central symbol of alchemy?

5. What has the science of alchemy produced?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the state of alchemy when Jung began to study it?

2. Describe the revelations Jung had during his near-death experience.

3. What influence does Jung attribute to the devil?

4. What is Jung's feeling about the Christian church?

5. How did Jung confront his father's thinking as he grew older?

6. Where does Jung say giants come from?

7. How did Jung feel about the cultures he traveled through?

8. What was Jung's relationship with Hegel's philosophy?

9. How does the idea of the afterlife affect Jung's epistemology?

10. Why did Jung find alchemy so interesting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role did Jung's family--both his parents and his wife and children--play in his life? Using examples from the text, describe the influence of Jung's family on his life.

Essay Topic 2

Freud was a father figure for Jung. How was Jung's relationship with Freud similar to Jung's relationship with his own father? Did Jung project his own father on Freud? Did Freud project his own children on Jung? Is that the best way to describe their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

How does Jung see Christianity, now that he has explored his unconscious? Did his early ideas stand up to his experience, and turn into his mature views, or did they change under pressure from overwhelming experiences?

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